About this Poem

"This poem is a cut-up, assembled from the marketing slogans of the top twenty-five subprime mortgage lenders in 2006."—Claire McQuerry

Author

Claire McQuerry

Claire McQuerry is the author Lacemakers (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), winner of the 2010 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She teaches at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.